pkray21's profile

For the last three years I have submerged myself in writing.  At first it was for only me, and still as I write it is still inately my form of expressing who I am, what I want to become: my fears, my inspirations, my love, my tragedies, my desires.  I have at least 500 poems now and at some point I started to share some.  Not out of recognition but to become part of a community that believes that the pen, our voice, is the one weapon we truly have.  I never have been in to editing one’s poems because I never want to take away from someone elses experiences.  Yet unless we share these poems, these moments of life, they will only be ours, wasted words that selfishly lie on a piece of paper when so many people have experienced the same exac…

For the last three years I have submerged myself in writing.  At first it was for only me, and still as I write it is still inately my form of expressing who I am, what I want to become: my fears, my inspirations, my love, my tragedies, my desires.  I have at least 500 poems now and at some point I started to share some.  Not out of recognition but to become part of a community that believes that the pen, our voice, is the one weapon we truly have.  I never have been in to editing one’s poems because I never want to take away from someone elses experiences.  Yet unless we share these poems, these moments of life, they will only be ours, wasted words that selfishly lie on a piece of paper when so many people have experienced the same exact feeling and just can’t express them themselves.  My words are no longer just mine….I’m not at all looking to become the next great poet, I am just looking for people who are willing to share what matters most to them in the most beautiful form of writing I think exists.  

My name is Kelly Ray and I hope that some of my poems can take you back to a place where as children we learned the basic forms of communication, poetry is just a hybrid of that.